For pre-med stu­dent Unice Kar­mue, his recent co-op with the Desmond Tutu Foun­da­tion in South Africa was a long way from his home coun­try of Liberia, but the expe­ri­ence solid­i­fied his career goals to alle­vi­ate the global health inequal­i­ties in the world. Kar­mue, who is also one of the University’s pres­ti­gious Torch Schol­ars, is par­tic­u­larly con­cerned …
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The micro­cre­dit orga­ni­za­tion, Esper­anza Inter­na­tional, has been suc­cess­fully oper­at­ing in the Domini­can Repub­lic and Haiti for the past 15 years to pro­vide hope or in Span­ish ‘esper­anza’ to the rural poor by the dis­sem­i­na­tion of micro-finance loans.  Esper­anza is ded­i­cated to serv­ing the poor­est of the poor and to date have dis­bursed over 106,000 loans …
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Teach For Amer­ica has long been lauded as a com­pet­i­tive pro­gram for bright col­lege grad­u­ates to hone their chops in an inten­sive learn­ing envi­ron­ment, while edu­cat­ing chil­dren at some of the nation’s low­est per­form­ing schools. TFA his­tor­i­cally has a less than 10% accep­tance rate, bring­ing in appli­cants from the best insti­tu­tions around the coun­try. Cur­rently, …
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Since an early age, Claire Fis­cher knew that she wanted to help save the world. In her junior high and high school years alone, she helped fundraise over $ 28,000 USD with her 30-hour famine approach for World Vision. Impressed by her fundrais­ing achieve­ments, Claire was cho­sen as a youth ambas­sador for World Vision and …
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